Advertising device



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R. W. SWANN. ADVERTISING DEVIGB.

No. 429,070. Patented May 27, 1890.

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Patented May 27, 1890.

R. W. SWANN.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

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R. W. SWANN. I ADVERTISING DEVICE.

No. 429,070. Patented May 27, 1890.

I W. A WM ah M" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT WV. SVVANN, OF KIRKYVOOD, GEORGIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,070, dated May 27, 1890.

Application filed January 15, 1890. Serial 110,836,970. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. SWANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kirkwood, in the county of De Kalb and State of Georgia, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to advertising.

The object of the invention is to produce an attractive advertising device of such peculiar form and construction that attention will be attracted to it, and advertising matter or the like contained made as prominent as possible.

The invention consists in an advertising device comprising a post or stand containing an endless belt or endless belts bearing cards or advertisements, an opening through which the belts are visible, a magnifying-glass covering the opening, and a motor giving a stepby-step movement to the belts to present parts thereof successively to the openings.

Furthermore, the invention consists in an advertising device comprising a post or stand containing an endless belt or endless belts carrying cards or advertisements to be brought opposite an opening in the top of the post or stand, the post or stand being provided with a hinged door leading to an interior receptacle for receiving advertisements, and a slot placed over a receptacle, into which money is to be dropped in payment of advertisements and the like which it is desired to have placed on the endless belts.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an advertising device constructed in' accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line y y of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 isa sectional view on the line :1: 2a of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing two sections of the endless belt carrying the advertisements or cards and the means for connecting them.

The purpose and design of this invention is to produce a device for use in advertising goods or for making prominent notices of a ordinarily published in newspapers-and it is designed to furnish such notices in a manner to reach persons who would not ordinarily see newspapers or the likein which such notices are ordinarily presented.

One embodiment of myinvention is shown in the accompanying drawings, but the general idea of my invention is a post, standard, or box, to occupy but a small amount of space, designed to be placed on streets at curbings, and to contain endless belts or other moving devices, upon which notices are placed to be presented successively at openings in the top of the box and remain there for a period for inspection.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a post, the top portion A of which contains the advertising matter, the mechanism for presenting it to view, the receptacle for advertisements and money in payment for the insertion of the same, and preferably, for the purpose of attracting attention, a clock arranged in the top of the post. The top surface A of the post is provided with one or more openings at, through which the interior is visible, and in order that the post may be made as small as possible, and at the same time the advertising matter be easily read, I prefer to cover the openings at with a magnifyingglass so focused on the advertising matter beneath as to greatly magnify it; also, in the top of the post is a slot a, leading to any suitable interior receptacle. The purpose of this slot is to allow the insertion of the fee necessary for the insertion of an advertisement in the post for a given time, a door a in the side covering the opening through which the advertisment to be inserted is deposited. WVhen the post is placed at a corner, it may be utilized as an indicator of the streets, and the names of intersecting streets are placed upon appropriate ends of the top and also upon the sides of the post, as shown. In the interior of the top portion A is arranged a hexagonal drum B, over which passes one or more belts designed to be brought to expose their surfaces through the openings at in the top of the post. The endless belt B is composed of a series of sections I), joined by hinges b, and these sect-ions are provided with overhanging edges 12 between which are designed to he slid cards b hearing advertisements, (be. The belt or belts are moved successively to present cards to the openings by any suitable mechanism, and in the present embodiment of the invention I have shown a double clock mechanism suitably operated by a coil-spring, the eseapementavheel 0 being provided with a number of pins proj ecting a sufficient distance to engage a vertical reciprocating rod or pin 0', sliding in a suitable Way 0 in the casing of the machine. The upper end of the pin C is designed to engage pins 12*, arranged in the head of the drum B. It will be clear from this arrangement that as the wheel 0 revolves the pins 0 will successively engage the lower end of the pin 0 and raise it until the pin engaging it has passed from beneath, when it will drop to its place. As the pin 0 rises, it engages one of the pins b and as the number of these pins corresponds with the sides of the drum the drum will be turned a distance sulficient to replace one card by its successor at the opening in the top of the post.

I have not particularly herein described the mechanism for giving movement to the drum, as this may be modified at \villas, for instance, if found desirable or conven ient an electric motor maybe utilized for giving motion to the drum.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The post or stand having one or more openings in its top and one or more moving endless belts placed in the post or stand and bearing notices or advertisements, and adapted to be moved to exhibit the notices successively at the opening or openings, and a magnifying-glass placed at the opening or openings, substantially as described.

2. The post or stand having one or more openin in its top, a magnifying-glass placed in the opening, and one or more moving endless belts placed in the post or stand and bearing notices or advertisments, and adapted to be moved to exhibit the notices successively at the opening or openings, the endless belts being made up of sections hinged together and provided with overhanging edges, and the cards to be confined by the overhanging edges.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBT. \V. SWANN. \Vitnesses:

DAVID II. MEAD, EWELL A. DICK. 

